xByte Technologies Appoints New CEO
More Big News for xByte Technologies xByte Technologies, appointed Ryan Brown as Chief Executive Officer as of January 1, 2015. Wanting to spend more time with family and on philanthropic ventures,...
View ArticleInside Look at xByte Technologies
For more than a decade, xByte Technologies has been committed to providing customers with exceptional customer service and quality products. This is the foundation on which the business has been built...
View ArticleWhy the R510
The R510 is Dell’s 11th Generation storage workhorse. This 2U rack server is renowned for its advanced management capabilities, internal storage capacity, economical RAID options, redundancy, and...
View ArticleHyper-V Replication Status for PRTG
Recently I wanted to add better monitoring of the Primary and Extended Hyper-V replication of our environment. Since our primary monitoring tool is PRTG I went looking for a sensor for this. There is...
View ArticleHow Much Bandwidth is Enough?
How much bandwidth is enough? The instinctual answer, born from harsh experience always seems to be “more than is available”, but is this actually true? As with anything in IT, the answer is “it...
View ArticleBest use cases for VRTX machines
The intriguing Dell PowerEdge VRTX “Modular Infrastructure Platform” device can be a bit of an enigma for IT departments. Just understanding exactly what it is can be difficult. So we will start...
View ArticleBooting Dell PowerEdge from SD Card
Background Many Dell PowerEdge servers have an option to boot select hypervisors from either a single SD card or dual mirrored SD cards. The advantage of this is that the server can be diskless or...
View ArticleDeployment Scenarios for the Dell PowerEdge FX
The Dell PowerEdge FX enclosure might, at first, be a bit of a mystery. For all intents and purposes, this is a 2U rack mount blade chassis and, in many ways, it is the baby sibling of the 5U VRTX...
View ArticleBest uses for servers that have been replaced with a hyper-converged environment
If you haven’t already implemented a hyperconverged infrastructure, you are at least thinking about trying it out. After making the switch, you will have an existing infrastructure that probably...
View ArticleChanging SAS Drives to SSDs in a Production Server
Many of our customers have questions about adding or changing drives in their servers to get better performance. Here are some solutions xByte Technologies recommended recently when a customer running...
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